Antstream Arcade has officially launched on Xbox today, bringing over 1400 retro games to Xbox players via its cloud-streaming service, but something you might have noticed is that only two PlayStation 1 titles are part of the lineup.
The good news is that many more PS1 games will be coming to Antstream Arcade in the near future!
This was revealed as part of last week's Antstream Connect, where the likes of Glover, Worms, Reloaded and MDK were all teased for the service. You can see the full roundup of all PS1 titles in the timestamped video up above.
In terms of when to expect these games, Antstream says a "huge number" of PS1 titles will be heading to the service as soon as they've been prepared with the likes of online leaderboards and challenges, suggesting that the initial selection of two titles will double in "a few weeks" and then improve again in a few more weeks, with a constant flow of PlayStation games rolling out to Antstream Arcade as time goes on.
Of course, more games will also be arriving for many other systems beyond the original PlayStation, with a bunch of them teased in the video above - so it's well worth watching the full presentation if you're curious.
There's also a really good Xbox Q&A that Antstream has pushed out today which includes some useful information, so we'll throw that down below. Firstly though, here's a look at some screenshots from all the PS1 games that Antstream teased in last week's July 2023 Antstream Connect, a few of which we haven't quite identified yet!
Excited for more PS1 games on Antstream Arcade? Let us know in the comments section.
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Piko basically bought up the rights to a bunch of old properties including 40 Winks and Glover and are slowly releasing them everywhere. Hence why a lot of the games on Antstream Arcade are the same ones you see on Evercade (40 Winks being one of the few PS1 games on there too).
Love it. Hope to see Skullmonkeys and Kula World in there. I'd love Tomba 1&2 but with the recent LRG re-release announcement I doubt it.
I wonder how achievements will work on these.
@InterceptorAlpha the achievements in Antstream Arcade are all for simply playing X amount of sessions, completing X amount of challenges or earning medals, across whatever's on the service. There aren't any game-specific achievements
I want them to add Colecovision games too!
@Markatron84 Ah nice. That makes a ton more sense. Thanks!
I wish they would add some of the old wwf arvaade games but thats probably a dream.
I've been gaming since the zx spectrum days but there's surprisingly few classics that I had wanted to replay on this service.
Add Brave Fencer Musashi and it’ll be an instant subscription from me
Absolutely loving this service a lot of memories on it.
Ive been playing a lot of elevator action returns and doing the challenges, played this game loads on my sega saturn.
@PeteW I had a look at the spectrum games on the service and most of the best ones appear to be missing unfortunately.
Like the idea but incredibly easy to access many many more games for free through emulation
The entire collection really seems to cater to a specific audience. This is a no brainer if you’re 40+ years old and lived in the UK. Lots of ZX Spectrum games. Lots of commodore games that were popular in the UK. I am not from the UK and am surprised by some of the omissions. Lots of EPYX games but not all the the Olympic ones are there. Would love Gamestar Boxing and Last Ninja series too.
Arcade Ninja Gaiden and Law of the West were fun to play again!
I would to love have international track & field (2000) with something like this.
The Amiga section is interesting but lacks DreamWeb
Can't wait for Target Renegade
https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/target-renegade-imagine-software-ltd
Would like to see classic Nintendo games for the SNES and NES collections, but Nintendo would never allow it.
@MSX I never owned a Spectrum, but I always remember when playing on a friends, that the colours all blended and clashed into one another. Like... if your character was white and you walked in front of a red door, your character would turn red.
@RetroMan71
yeah colour clash was a thing but the Speecy had higher resolution compared to the C64 and Amstrad.....look up Target Renegade.....it was brilliant, felt like I was in the Warriors movie as a kid
@MSX Yeah I'm familiar with that one, was just watching the video you posted. Funnily enough I did play this on the Amstrad.
They have the emulators in place on this service, I would love to be able to point an emulator at my Dropbox account and pull my legally owned roms onto the streaming service. I know it would be hard to do since so many people would cheat the system.
super nintendo showed 1 game haha
They need to do a free week trial so the consumer can test how the streaming will play
Kula World and Devil Dice I'd like to see. But hey it's cool to see what it there even if familiar.
Still waiting on that Glover modern console port since the mixed results PC/Steam port reviews.
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